Sadly, our value system has become so distorted that we link our international prestige to providing a 10-day Commonwealth Games whose chief characteristic is hiding beggars from public gaze so that foreign dignitaries will perhaps be fooled into believing that India has no beggars. This distortion of values is proved by Suresh Kalmadi getting Rs 1,600 crore for the games while the victims of Bhopal have now been given a supplementary amount of 1,500 crore. The games, for which the perfectly good roads of Lutyens’ Delhi are being paved all over again, get Rs 100 crore more.”
This comes from Mani Shankar Aiyer--a senior Congress leader. For once, i couldn't agree more,
What are we doing, where are our values? another innane, insane move i read today:
A Draft law gives Maharashtra SEZs the powers of a local body..here is the link: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/draft-law-gives-maharashtra-sezs-the-powers-of-a-local-body/642238/. how can we let this happen? where are the poor in all this? the ones whose land is grabbed for SEZ? shuttled out of their homes so that the rich can get richer? and they make a noise--the human rights activists, when people are relocated--with a fairly decent deal, now, and on a voluntary basis--out of forests--so that that can get more opportunities and into the mainstream, and out of the wilderness? why are there no protests over this one?
if you want further shocks, read the cover story on mining in frontline...
That is well said. Perhaps the recent hikes are also part of the ploy. It's a shame that we are still trying to short-change the working class that forms our backbone.
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